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FSMO ROLES in ACTIVE DIRECTORY

In this blog post, I will list the five FSMO roles in any Active Directory environment. FSMO stands for Flexible Single Master Operations. The roles are as follows:

Schema = forest wide, one per forest

Domain Naming = forest wide, one per forest

RID = Domain-specific, one per domain

PDC Emulator = domain-specific, one per domain

Infrastructure = domain-specific, one per domain

Transferring roles: Sometimes you will need to transfer the FSMO roles from one server to another server (in the event that the source server needs to be upgraded or replaced). The following process shows you how to perform the transfer.

Commands to query and transfer FSMO:

The following command shows you which server currently holds the FSMO roles:

netdom query fsmo

To transfer schema role: regsvr32 schmmgmt.dll to register. Then use mmc /a to add Active Directory Schema, then use snapin to transfer the role.